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Karen Killilea, whose story helped change views on cerebral palsy, dies at 80
Harrison Smith, The Washington Post
Dec. 23, 2020
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Karen Killilea, center, is pictured in 2013 with her sister Kristin Viltz, left, joined by Kristin s husband, Simon, and daughter Nikole.Family photo by Linda Marie Werner
When Karen Killilea was born in 1940, three months premature and weighing less than two pounds, few doctors expected her to live. She had sparkling eyes and an infectious smile but spent her first nine months in a hospital, watched over by nurses in the newborn intensive care unit.
Once she came home to Rye, N.Y., she seemed unusually still and rigid for an infant, never rolling over, kicking her feet or reaching her tiny hands toward her parents. Killilea (pronounced KILL-ill-ee) was eventually diagnosed with cerebral palsy, a group of movement disorders that led one physician to suggest her parents institutionalize her. Another declared that in China, they ta